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Thrale, without even mentioning the existence of this mob; perhaps, at this very moment, he thinks it "a humbug upon the nation," as George Bodens called the Parliament. Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, i. 401. When Johnson wrote, the mob had not risen to its height of violence. Mrs.
Walpole's Letters, vii. 54 She was a younger sister of Peg Woffington (ante, p. 264). Johnson described her as 'a very airy lady. (Boswell's Hebrides, Sept. 23, 1773.) Murphy (Life, p. 137) says that 'Johnson, sitting at table with her, took hold of her hand in the middle of dinner, and held it close to his eye, wondering at the delicacy and the whiteness, till with a smile she asked: "Will he give it to me again when he has done with it?" He told Miss Burney that 'Mrs. Cholmondeley was the first person who publicly praised and recommended Evelina among the wits. Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, i. 180. Miss Burney wrote in 1778: 'Mrs. Cholmondeley has been praising Evelina; my father said that I could not have had a greater compliment than making two such women my friends as Mrs. Thrale and Mrs. Cholmondeley, for they were severe and knowing, and afraid of praising
Lowe, I beg your pardon for running away, but I have just recollected another engagement; so I poked three guineas in his hand, and told him I would come again another time, and then ran out of the house with all my might." Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, ii.41.
I assured him I would be the sooner, and was running off, but he called me back in a solemn voice, and in a manner the most energetic, said: "Remember me in your prayers." Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, ii. 327. See ante, iii. 367, note 4. Mr. Hector's sister and Johnson's first love. Ante, ii. 459. The Rev. Dr. Taylor. See ante, ii. 474, and iii. 180.
'The company in general were dressed with more brilliancy than at any rout I ever was at, as most of them were going to the Duchess of Cumberland's. Miss Burney herself was 'surrounded by strangers, all dressed superbly, and all looking saucily.... Dr. Johnson was standing near the fire, and environed with listeners. Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, ii. 179, 186, 190.
But it most resembles the puffs of Mr. Rowland and Dr. Goss. It matters not what ideas are clothed in such a style. The genius of Shakespeare and Bacon united would not save a work so written from general derision. It is only by means of specimens that we can enable our readers to judge how widely Madame D'Arblay's three styles differed from each other.
Thrale, "he writes and talks with the same ease, and in the same manner." Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, i. 120. What a different account is this from that given by Macaulay: 'When he talked he clothed his wit and his sense in forcible and natural expressions. As soon as he took his pen in his hand to write for the public, his style became systematically vicious. Macaulay's Essays, edit. 1843, i.404.
I never speak of her, and I desire never to hear of her more. I drive her, as I said, wholly from my mind." Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, ii. 328. See ante, i. 493. Anec. p. 293. 'The saying of the old philosopher who observes, "that he who wants least is most like the gods who want nothing," was a favourite sentence with Dr.
Cambridge to his son George, when listening to a dull story, in saying to the relator "Tell the rest of that to George." Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, ii. 274. See ante, ii. 361. Virgil, Eclogues, i. 47. 'Mr. Johnson, writes Mrs. He had strongly persuaded himself of the difficulty people always find to erase early impressions either of kindness or resentment.
Had Miss Burney thought of this text, she might have quoted it with effect against Johnson, who, criticising her Evelina, said: 'You write Scotch, you say "the one," my dear, that's not English. Never use that phrase again. Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, i. 84. 'Turn not thou away. St. Matthew, v. 42.
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